The sale of the two pills made a considerable amount of income finally appear on the account in the account of Madao Shibao, although it seemed that Wang Gui and the merchants had a large monthly transaction amount, but most of them were bartered, and the asking price of the goods brought by the merchants was not cheap.

High price to high price, Xiao Ye did not take advantage.

This is also the reason why the Mongolians are not satisfied with the mutual market, but the distance between the mainland and the grassland is far and the risk is high, a very ordinary iron pot, it is too common to exchange two or three big sheep on the grassland, and the tea that the herdsmen can not do without is also expensive; Isn't it true that the Han caravan went to the distance for high profits, and both parties were shouting grievances.

Xiao Ye's command roughly calculated that more than 10,000 people ate, drank, lazar and slept in Lazar, plus the high amount of food and salary in the war barracks, if it weren't for the account room in charge of Mei'er and Tian Xiuxiu to sort out the accounts, the bottom would have been a mess of accounts.

Especially Wang Ziliang's communication team, it is a bottomless pit to start the cost, these are still two small shadow teams and Haiqi teams, think about the brocade guards all over the imperial court, I am afraid that the annual cost is huge, Xiao Ye is in awe.

Ma Dao Stone Castle, Xiao Yezheng and Liu Yi were in the study, looking at a bowl of pale yellow medicinal juice that had just been boiled, and discussing in a low voice.

Li Muchen, Langzhong, who was captured from the gravel fort by Xiao Ye earlier, is now in the infirmary to supervise the production of medicine belts, and sometimes to instruct the medical guards, but basically does not show up; As long as his food is enough to buy ale wine to drink, Li Muchen will not come to Xiao Ye.

Of course, Xiao Ye sent people to give Li Muchen the Fenjiu from time to time, which still made this Langzhong completely feel at ease.

Unlike Liu Yi, who strictly followed the medical book, Li Muchen liked to study novel prescriptions, and as a result, he mixed some seemingly useless vine grass fruits from the harvest and the pits of the Coptis chinensis fruit to make the medicinal juice in front of Xiao Ye.

"Li Langzhong tried this kind of medicinal juice with lambs, and after pouring a small amount of it a few times, the lambs grew very quickly, and their strength was much greater, much taller than other lambs," Liu Yi pointed to the medicine bowl that was still steaming and said in a low voice.

"But in people, it hasn't been verified yet," his words made the corners of Xiao Ye's mouth twitch twice, this Li Langzhong, it's okay why are you doing this boundless thing.

Let Li Shan put the medicine bowl into the food box, this thick and slimy medicine juice will not spill out if you think about it, and a few people turned their feet and went to Wang Meng's military compound and went to the semi-underground stone prison.

Last night, the guards just caught a spy from the government from the top of the west mountain, and this guy didn't know how to do it, he was able to get through the dense vines and grass alive, and he actually got within two miles southwest of the mountaintop, but he was still discovered by the telescope.

The lean middle-aged spy was pinched and poured the medicinal juice, Li Shan slapped it a few times, and honestly swallowed all the medicinal juice into his stomach, not even daring to vomit.

At the time of a bag of cigarettes, this spy was slightly warm, and his spirit was much better, and he said that he had a little strength in his body, and Xiao Ye couldn't see the other reactions.

After several verifications, Xiao Ye and Liu Yi determined that this kind of prescription discovered by Li Muchen by chance turned out to be a medicine that could increase the strength of the human body moderately, although there was only a trace of growth, but its impact was immeasurable.

For this reason, Li Muchen directly got the best Fenjiu from the ten jars, and Liu Yi also personally took two confidants and began to specially configure this powerful decoction; Xiao Ye, who didn't have the talent to choose a name, simply borrowed the name of a powerful potion.

Peel off the skin of the dry and hard fruit, there is no flesh in it, the core of the vine grass the size of a bean grain, peel off a thick layer of shell, the white kernel is less than the size of a fingernail, if you accumulate a weight of one or two, you need nearly half a catty of fruit.

This kind of pit, which no one sees to be of any use, is similar to ordinary wild fruits, and is also the least outrageous of the vine fruits; After some inquiry, it turned out that it was picked on the bank of the Xilong River, the fruit was too small, but there were a lot of them, and Wang Gui collected them from the Tian family caravan.

The bitter fruit on the Coptis tree, which comes from the fruit on Shiguantun Mountain, has finally found the magic of compatibility.

"Could it be that this vine and grass fruit, like wheat, must be in a fertile field to bear this fruit?" Xiao Ye, who was puzzled, couldn't help but wonder secretly.

Three days later, two Tartar guards were selected from Chehneshi's team, and under the gaze of everyone, they raised their necks and drank a powerful yellowish decoction, and sat on a wooden bench for a long time, without any abnormal reaction; After some feelings, the two guards told Xiao Ye that they could detect that the strength in their bodies had increased a little, but the effect was not great.

It doesn't have much effect, but if you drink this medicine every day, the water drops will wear it; The centurions who watched together suddenly widened their eyes, and even the two deputy commanders, who were accustomed to silence, were overjoyed.

"This decoction is kept secret from the outside world, and can only be drunk in the guards and sergeants, and it is not allowed to tell anyone outside the compound, and the medical hall will assess the price by itself," there are not many raw materials, Xiao Ye seriously emphasized the secrecy of military discipline, and asked Yang Shibai to take people to the medical hall; In the future, there will also be a special small courtyard in the medical center to prepare this medicine.

The decoction for the use of the guards, Xiao Ye will not let the guards drink it at will, and the physical fitness depends on the hard drills every day to boil, and the decoction is just an opportunity; Each person in the guard drank the powerful potion once every five days, which was already the maximum.

Except for the first batch of saplings planted at the foot of Shiguan Mountain, which has grown more than two people tall, and there are not many fruits; Coptis trees in other places are small saplings, and it will depend on next year to bear fruit.

In the study, I drank a bowl of pale yellow medicinal juice, closed my eyes and felt a few traces of heat slowly spreading in my body, for a long time, Xiao Ye sighed, "This prescription seems to be really good, but the effect of the medicine is still poor,"

Xiao Ye, who could sense a slight increase in strength, was about to praise Li Muchen a few words, but Liu Yi, who was standing quietly next to him, shook his head with a smile, "My lord, in this decoction, my subordinates have added a penny of wild ginseng and deer antler velvet, which others can't enjoy,"

Oh, in this way, the effect of the powerful decoction on the level of a sixth-order sergeant like Xiao Ye is even more minimal, and the sergeants below the third order and ordinary people will get the greatest benefits.

Due to financial constraints, especially the lack of a large number of people sent into the black house, Xiao Ye couldn't let go of his hands and feet, so he could only use the powerful soup and pills in a critical place.

At present, it has not yet arrived, and the grassland spring has arrived half a month late, and the cold wind is howling all day long on the construction sites of Wangjiabao, Yangjiabao and Ximen Stone Fort, in addition to the dug foundation trenches criss-crossed, the craftsmen of the logistics team have all returned to Gujiabao and Eagle Claw Fort.

However, there was news from Chen Ping in Shiguantun that there were cracks in the stone roof of the abandoned mill stone fort, and the cracks were getting bigger and bigger, and people were no longer afraid to live there.

"I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry," Wang Dali, who rushed to hear the news, said to Xiao Ye with annoyance, "The plaster must be mixed with iron bars, so that it can be as strong as rocks, but we didn't have iron bars at that time, only tree branches and hay,"

Seeing Xiao Yehu looking at the roof of the study suspiciously, Wang Dali blushed and hurriedly explained, "The rooms in the Madao Stone Fort are very strong, please rest assured, my subordinates don't dare to slack off on the military house where we live." ”

"In the goods that Wang Gui traded with the merchants, he asked for some iron bars every time, and all of them were left in the logistics team to be used as stucco skeletons,"

"Well, Uncle Wang, you have to check more about the purchase of iron bars, the stone fort in Shiguantun is reinforced with wood, and it can barely be used, but every stone fort we have here must be able to withstand the bombardment of Tartar artillery iron pellets," Wang Dali even claimed to be for Xiao Ye's words.

When the logistics team sent people to inspect the stone fort, the mills were busy day and night, a large amount of yellow plaster was stored, the drills in the barracks continued all day long, and the guards also began a new round of training, and the guards took turns to the Eagle Claw Fort to learn how to control heavy machine guns and lightning guns from Hao Yongliang's artillery team.

At the end of January, Yu Shan returned in a transport truck, followed by two merchants from Haixi Village, who wanted to open a shop in Gujiabao as well. For the sake of the face of the large box of gold coins that came back from the transaction, Xiao Ye nodded and agreed.

To be precise, the shop opened by the Haixi people in Gujiabao is an acquisition point, using gold and silver coins to buy the goods in Xiao Ye's hands, giving priority to firearms, but they can't sell the goods they can't get their hands on, at this point, Jin Sanniang and they can still tolerate it.

Of course, if the Haixi people can buy some goods in other shops, then everyone will be happy, Xiao Ye's transport car will not be cheap to run long distances.

At the beginning of February of the ninth year of Zhengde, Mei'er and Lina gave birth to two daughters, Yang Tianshou happily named Ximen Lingyu and Ximen Qinxue, and Xiao Weifeng had two more sisters.

Shops have been set up in Eagle Claw Fort and Gujiabao, and the merchants who are preparing to build new restaurants and inns have sent congratulatory gifts, and Jin Sanniang has also sent two baskets of oranges, which are rare fruits, and the meaning is quite powerful.

The centurions, thousands, and Chikhgu of the various war battalions also wanted to send congratulatory gifts, but Xiao Ye refused through the letter post.

The three merchants in Gansu Town, in order to make up for the earlier losses, spared no effort to transport a large amount of lead and tin ore to Eagle Claw Fort, although Wang Gui pressed the price to the surface of his feet, but he could not support the number of people and the large number of convoys, and most of the silk cotton coats, vanity mirrors, and white stunned papers accumulated in the warehouse were exchanged.

Xiao Ye, who was alone in the study, took the book with a smile and sat on the wooden chair, but his thoughts had already fallen into the military catalog in his mind; The Makqin heavy machine gun, the 50-caliber lightning gun, finally appeared again after a long time.

Hao Yongliang's artillery team now has five heavy machine guns and ten mine guns, and the ammunition base is enough to fight a battle.

The skillful blacksmith in the blacksmith shop, under the guidance of Hao Yongliang, punched out fourteen small iron wheels, and replaced the large wooden wheels on the heavy machine guns with iron wheels that were more convenient to travel.

"My lord," a guard knocked on the door and carried Xin Lilin's wheelchair into the study; Xin Weilin looked at Xiao Ye's excited expression, and he didn't know what he was happy about, "There is a happy event?" ”

"Hehe, it's nothing, as long as everyone in the stone fort can be fed and clothed, that's the biggest joy," Xin Lilin didn't react much to Xiao Ye's boasting, but took out a roll of white paper from the side pocket of his wheelchair and put it on the desk.

He didn't run blindly this time, but went to learn about the strength of Xiao Ye's battle camp, as well as the firearms and ammunition stored in the stone fort warehouse, and even the nearly 3,000 young men in the logistics team, and he almost saw it with his own eyes.

In the end, Xin Lilin looked at all kinds of information collected by Wang Ziliang's communication team for several days before he came to find Xiao Ye.

"My lord, judging from the edict that Aman received from Najinong, we should have been noticed here, although the weather is cold, it is difficult to guarantee that the Tartars will be taken by surprise and send troops to attack Gujiabao, and even make a detour to Qingfeng Valley, directly attack Eagle Claw Fort, and threaten Madao Stone Fort,"

"Oh, turn the tiger away from the mountain? Draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle? Xiao Ye frowned and looked at the simple map on the table, the two passages leading to the grassland were even more dazzling.

"That's right, Wang Ziliang received a report from Liu Shuihe, ten miles east of Eagle Claw Fort, he found traces of Tartar rangers, and the distance is less than our warning range, I think Wang Ziliang hasn't told the adults yet,"

"Okay, Brother Liu Ren, then you can do a few strategies, no matter where the Tartars come from, how should we deal with it, and how should we deal with it in case they collude with the border army," Xiao Ye nodded, and then sent the guards to Wang Meng's barracks, raising the vigilance of Madao Stone Fort.

While Xiao was busy training his troops, Ranelt, who had set out from Shuangta Lake, had already led his army to the upper reaches of the Zabkhan River, eight hundred miles to the northwest, and the vanguard was none other than the 2,000 cavalry of the Galen tribe.

In the case of two or even four horses, they would have been faster if it weren't for the thick snow on the ground.

Ah Man and Daozi led their subordinates to Shuangta Lake, but soon encountered the blizzard, and in desperation, under the arrangement of Lanelt, they temporarily camped on the west shore of Shuangta Lake and waited for more than ten days.

Lanelt's old tribal camp has also moved to the valley on the north shore of the Twin Towers, where there are not only vast winter pastures, but also two veins to be mined, whether it is iron ore or silver, Lanelt is considered to be the biggest winner.

However, there are basically no large forests in the mountains and mountains near Shuangta Lake, and a few sparse poplar forests are useless for smelting; These ores were previously pulled to the east near Hangai Mountain, where there were carboniferous mines.

But the possessor of Helin is the same as Collapsed Wolf Tile and Ranelte, both of whom are Wanfu Changshi Huaigai under the command of Jinong, who is the in-law of the little prince, and is the closest distant relative compared to it, and Collapsed Wolf Tile and Ranelte can't be compared at all.

Not to mention the private expansion of the wolf's tile, he is good at using artillery, and his subordinates are equipped with firearms, and the strong army is not only unwilling to provoke Lanelt, but also makes the elders under Jinong gradually have a connection, otherwise it is not easy for Lanelt to annex the Shuangta Lake area.

As a poisonous weed in the eyes of herders, the emerald vine grows wildly on the grassland, and traces can be seen everywhere in Shuangta Lake, which is one of the reasons why no one blames Lanelt for picking up cheap.

The iron ore and silver ore produced by Shuangta Lake have a lot of impurities, and in the past, the wolf tile could be sent to Helin to exchange iron, cattle and sheep with his identity, but now Lanelt's pack team has been repeatedly refused to trade by Shi Huaigai.

In desperation, he had no choice but to change the object of the transaction to Gu Jiabao, but the profit was unexpected.

All kinds of goods from the warehouse of the Gujiabao military house, although there are not many grains, tea, and salt, but the rear-loading fire/gun and short fire gun in it are enough to make Ranellet happy, and sigh that he has opened his eyes and seen the world, but the price is too expensive.

The two thousand cavalry that Ah Man brought, half of which were sergeants carrying fires/guns, and the other sergeants had puffs in their arms and repeating crossbows hanging from their saddles.

When they had nothing to do, the soldiers of Daozi and Aman, played rugby in the camp, and the two sides played hotly, and the loser had to take out the canned food for a treat.

This canned food was quite popular in the winter camp of Lanelt, and there were Tartar cavalry pulling cattle and sheep, and ten boxes of canned food could be exchanged for one cow, but it was decisively rejected by Ah Man and Knife; If you want to trade, you can go to Eagle Claw Fort, at least you can get it in Gujiabao, and they don't have enough to eat when they get to Shuangta Lake.

The collision of a rather barbaric rugby match inadvertently entered the eyes of the Mongolian Tartars, and after watching the two games, some rugby balls were replaced by agate bracelets and flowed out to Raelt's barracks.

Seeing that the Galen tribe and his subordinates were becoming more and more harmonious, Lanelt, who was getting more and more harmonious, hurriedly sent troops north, and the Galen tribe cavalry was the vanguard.

Although Jinong did not explicitly order the Galen tribe to belong to the command of Lanelt, it was regarded as a thorn between Aman and Lanelt, but Lanelt, who could easily raise tens of thousands of troops, sat in the Chinese army as a matter of course, and Aman and the knife pinched their noses very wisely and endured.

Lanelt's 300 personal guards, all rear-loading firearms/guns, and 500 personal guards with three-eyed rear guns, and 9,000 armed warriors on horseback at any time to fight, are naturally higher than the strength.

Rushing to the vicinity of the upper reaches of the Zabkhan River, Aman and Daozi received a clear order from Lanelt to attack and occupy the Koesi Mountains, a rolling mountain range in the steppe.

This abrupt mountain ridge in the grassland, the highest height is less than 100 zhang, the mountain is gentle, there are almost no wild grasses and shrubs on the mountain, and on the bare mountain, the Tile Thorn tribe sent a 10,000 horsemen to garrison the eastern col, where the terrain can hinder the northwest cold wind.

Kuoxi Mountain, the salt mountain with the meaning of Tatar, the knife that understood the meaning of Kuoxi Mountain from Aman's mouth, suddenly had red eyes, green salt has always been the weakness of Madao Stone Fort, although the caravan from the mainland seems to be transporting goods endlessly, but green salt is pitiful.

The salt and iron franchise is a hammer of the Ming Dynasty, and the merchants have to calculate the cost no matter how connected they are, and the green salt sold in the shops in the stone castle is almost ten yuan and one tael.

For this reason, the consumption of the rooms in the barracks made Xiao Ye have to buy green salt at a high price, and the reason why the government and merchants didn't care about the expansion of Xiao Ye's troops was also because they had the channels of food, iron, green salt, and tea in their hands, as well as the supply of various materials.

The importance of salt in the grassland is self-evident, but although Ah Man and Daozi did not see the salt soil of this Kuoxi Mountain, the hard saline-alkali ground under the snow has made them dare to walk and it is quite dangerous.

It turned out that there was such an attractive good thing in the place where the Tile Thorn tribe and the Tatar tribe broke their heads and tore them apart despite the severe cold. In Aman's impression, it seems that the wolf tile brought troops here the year before last, and then he withdrew for some reason, and it seems that he was forced to retreat by the tile spurs.

The scout soon sent back to the letter post, and in the dozen or so round-peaked yurts on the opposite hill, there were no more than a hundred Varspurs guarding, and the number could be counted from the saddled war horses they had gathered around.

Pemba, Pemba, there was a faint sound of fire/gunfire in the distance, and the mountains were so gentle that the scouts couldn't find a place to hide, and soon met the rangers of the Tile Thorns.

"Kill," after a brief discussion with Aman, the knife decided not to wait for the arrival of Lanelt's rear army, and the two thousand cavalry were ready to be divided into two, with five hundred cavalry on the left and right guarding the flanks, and a thousand fire/gunners in the middle lined up, forming two columns of fans to rush towards the Tile Thorn cavalry camp on Koxi Mountain.

More than fifty veterans stepped forward and pulled away the war horses left by the sergeants, and one person pulled the reins of a dozen horses, exerting all his old strength, desperately retreating to the rear; Not far behind them, on a high ground, there was a flat ground just enough to camp, and their task was to take care of the horses, and use earthwork bullets to open a trench that was not deep to shelter in.

"Didi, Didi," the sergeant jumped off his horse and held up the fire/gun in the high, and began to line up and check the ammunition for the fire/gun; After half a pillar of incense, the sergeants, under the order of the centurion, strode side by side towards the hill, the projectiles were loaded, and their eyes were fixed on the bare hillside, and they ran out of the yurt, and more and more of the spur cavalry climbed on the horses.

Attacking from the back, the infantry attacked the cavalry on the back, and the knife was extremely bold, holding a rifle first, with a box cannon and earth-shattering thunder in his waist, and quickly crossed the infantry line with a dozen guards.

The guards who followed him each carried a backpack in their arms, which was filled with earth-shattering thunder, and all the fire ropes were pulled out.

Boom, the tile spur cavalry on the mountain was a little confused by the reckless action of the two thousand foot cavalry that suddenly arrived, but the obvious hostility could still be distinguished, and a team of 100 horsemen quickly pounced.

To say that the tile spur cavalry and the Tartar cavalry are different, the tile spur cavalry prefers to wear leather hats, and the rest is not in the dress up of weapons, everyone is basically the same; The mark that distinguishes the cavalry is the leather cord in their hands, the kind of leather cord that turns around the top of their heads and punches out stones, but they are unique, and they are accurate at about eighty paces.

The ropes beside the saddles of the Tartar cavalry were used to pull heavy objects for horses and people, but they did not have the ability to throw ropes and flying stones.